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April 18, 2022  •  Amir Pourmand

 2 min read  •   markdown   features  •   blog 

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Normal Text

Alternate Syntax

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Bold and Italic

I just love bold text. I just love bold text. Loveisbold

Italicized text is the cat’s meow.

This text is really important.

Blockquotes

Dorothy followed her through many of the beautiful rooms in her castle.

Blockquotes with Multiple Paragraphs

Dorothy followed her through many of the beautiful rooms in her castle.

The Witch bade her clean the pots and kettles and sweep the floor and keep the fire fed with wood.

Nested Blockquotes

Dorothy followed her through many of the beautiful rooms in her castle.

The Witch bade her clean the pots and kettles and sweep the floor and keep the fire fed with wood.

Blockquotes with Other Elements

The quarterly results look great!

  • Revenue was off the chart.

  • Profits were higher than ever.

    Everything is going according to plan.

Ordered Lists

  1. First item
  2. Second item
  3. Third item
  4. Fourth item

Unordered Lists

Code Blocks

  1. Open the file.
  2. Find the following code block on line 21:
        <html>
          <head>
            <title>Test</title>
          </head>
        </html>
  1. Update the title to match the name of your website.

Code

At the command prompt, type nano.

Horizontal Rules

Reference 1

Reference 2

Markdown Extended Syntax

Reference

Tables

SyntaxDescription
HeaderTitle
ParagraphText
SyntaxDescriptionTest Text
HeaderTitleHere’s this
ParagraphTextAnd more

Fenced Code Blocks

{
  "firstName": "John",
  "lastName": "Smith",
  "age": 25
}

Syntax Highlighting

{
    "firstName": "John",
    "lastName": "Smith",
    "age": 25
}

Footnotes

Here’s a simple footnote,1 and here’s a longer one.2

My Great Heading

Linking to Heading IDs

Definition List

First Term
This is the definition of the first term.
Second Term
This is one definition of the second term.
This is another definition of the second term.

Strikethrough

The world is flat. We now know that the world is round.

Task List

Emoji

Taken from here 🫶 😂

Using Emoji Shortcodes

Gone camping! ⛺ Be back soon.

That is so funny! 😂

Automatic URL Linking

http://www.example.com

Disabling Automatic URL Linking

http://www.example.com

  1. This is the first footnote. ↩︎

  2. Here’s one with multiple paragraphs and code.

    Indent paragraphs to include them in the footnote.

    { my code }

    Add as many paragraphs as you like. ↩︎